August 2, 2003
MELLON SCOUTING SITES DOWNTOWN
August 2, 2003 | 4:00amMellon Financial Corp. is looking at lower Manhattan as a possible site for consolidating its New Jersey and Manhattan locations, The Post has learned. "Mellon plans on completing its evaluation...
NYSE BLACK EYE : REPORT RIPS CEO PAY, GOVERNANCE, CONFLICTS
August 2, 2003 | 4:00amThe New York Stock Exchange's CEO is overpaid, its effectiveness as a self- regulatory organization is questionable, and it's rife with conflicts, charges a report released yesterday by the Council...
QUEEN OF THE SCREEN MOMA RETRO HONORS VANGUARD DIRECTOR DOROTHY ARZNER
August 2, 2003 | 4:00amCinematic trailblazer Dorothy Arzner, who cracked the Tinseltown boys club in the 1920s and '30s by becoming the sole female director of the time, is the subject of a brand...
DINNER PARTY CHEAT SHEET
August 2, 2003 | 4:00amTo clear its name, Cheat Sheet insists it takes no responsibility for and has no cameo in the Ben Affleck and J. Lo movie "Gigli."SEA-DIDDYSean "P. Diddy" Combs is spending...
CULTURA EN CORONA
August 2, 2003 | 4:00amThe Latino Cultural Festival, at Flushing Meadows Corona Park theater, is back for a seventh year with a sampling of Latin culture ranging from flamenco to rock 'n' roll, and...
HOW 'FREAKY' CAME TO BE
August 2, 2003 | 4:00amIt was almost "Funky Friday," says Mary Rodgers of her 1972 book "Freaky Friday." But her publishers didn't like the sound of it. Rodgers, who also wrote the screenplay for...
TEEN FOR A TIME: FOR 'FREAKY FRIDAY,' JAMIE LEE CURTIS ASKED AN EXPERT - HER DAUGHTER
August 2, 2003 | 4:00amJamie Lee Curtis would like to thank her teenage daughter, Annie, for helping her make "Freaky Friday," about a body-swapping mother and daughter. "Very early on, when she watched me...
WHEELY HOT TIMES IN HARLEM
August 2, 2003 | 4:00amBYOB - bring your own bicycle - and head uptown tomorrow for a bike tour and more as Harlem kicks off a month of celebration. Olympic medallist Nelson Vails will...
MELLENCAMP'S BLUES HEAVEN
August 2, 2003 | 4:00amJOHN MELLENCAMP AFTER more than 25 years as one of the most underrated and misunderstood men in rock 'n' roll, John Mellencamp has emerged as an artist who measures the...
GETTING 'GIGLI' WITH IT: GLEEFUL CRITICS HOWLING OVER BEN & JEN'S BOMB
August 2, 2003 | 4:00amA firestorm of criticism engulfed "Gigli" yesterday, as critics from coast to coast roasted the gangland comedy as an all-time megaton bomb. Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck, who play mob...
A DANCE FOR ALL SEASONS
August 2, 2003 | 4:00amA new dance event at this year's Mostly Mozart Festival sent English operatic star baritone Simon Keenlyside and director/choreographer Trisha Brown on a journey in Schubert's great, somber song cycle...
HIDDEN TREASURES OF HARLEM
August 2, 2003 | 4:00amOf course there's Sylvia's and the Lenox Lounge, but these lesser known local gems are worth uncovering. SETTEPANI BAKERY 120th Street and Malcolm X Blvd. 917-492-4806 Settepani Bakery is a...
FINDING THE UPTOWN ARTBEAT
August 2, 2003 | 4:00amHARLEM might be famous for chicken and waffles, but you can also fill your plate with fine and contemporary art work by world-renowned masters as well as emerging young artists....
HARLEM'S RISING FORTUNES
August 2, 2003 | 4:00amTHE spotlight grew brighter on Harlem after former President Bill Clinton took offices on the top floor of one of 125th Street's best office buildings and Rao's Italian eatery in...
MADE IN HARLEM
August 2, 2003 | 4:00amTHESE DESIGNERS HAVE YOU COVERED FROM HEAD TO FOOT HATS BY BUNN 2283 Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Blvd. 212-694-3590 Owner and millinery-master Bunn (he goes by the one name only)...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
August 2, 2003 | 4:00amA Louisiana pastor looking to diversify his predominantly black church says he'll pay white people $5 an hour to attend Sunday service. Bishop Fred Caldwell of Shreveport's Greenwood Acres Full...
GOV RIPS TIMES ON NUKE GOOF
August 2, 2003 | 4:00amThe beleaguered New York Times came under fire yet again yesterday - this time from Gov. Pataki, who accused the paper of record of getting a story all wrong. The...
9/11 REPORT LINKS SAUDIS TO HIJACKERS
August 2, 2003 | 4:00amClassified sections of Congress' Sept. 11 report lay out a web of connections among Saudi businessmen, royal family, charities and banks that shows they may have provided al Qaeda and...
ARNOLD GIVING LENO GOV SCOOP
August 2, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Going showbiz all the way, Arnold Schwarzenegger plans to wait until Wednesday night to say if he's going to jump into the race to dump California Gov. Gray...
'KEEP NELSON IN JAIL'
August 2, 2003 | 4:00amThe family of murdered scholar Yankel Rosenbaum moved yesterday to put the man who stabbed him during the 1991 Crown Heights riots away for life instead of the 10 years...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
August 2, 2003 | 4:00amQueens Police are asking for the public's help in finding a gun-toting bandit (right) who has held up three livery cabbies. The suspect, described as 6 feet tall and 200...
AGONY FOR 'ECSTASY' BOUNCER
August 2, 2003 | 4:00amA Midtown nightclub bouncer has admitted that he took bribes from "ecstasy" dealers to allow them to sell pills inside the club. José Hernandez, who was working at Club Exit...
PUFFY NOISE ANNOYS HIS NEIGHBOR
August 2, 2003 | 4:00amCall him Puff Daddy, P. Diddy or just plain Puffy - the hoity-toity in St. Tropez call him a nuisance. Police were summoned to a luxurious villa in the south...
BLOOMY HAS A BALL; DANCES UP A STORM ON DOMINICAN SWING
August 2, 2003 | 4:00amSANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic - Call him Mayor Merengue. Mayor Bloomberg was bitten by the infectious merengue dance bug yesterday just moments after he stepped off his private jet for...
PATAKI VETO PUTS BOOT TO 62 SUBWAY BOOTHS
August 2, 2003 | 4:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki yesterday vetoed legislation that would have blocked the closing of dozens of subway token booths around the city. The governor's action means 62 part-time booths will...
BOXLEY INDICTED IN 2 RAPES OF STAFFER
August 2, 2003 | 4:00amALBANY - Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's chief counsel was indicted on four counts of rape yesterday, two more than originally charged when he was first arrested in June. J. Michael...
MUGGED HOOPSTER: I THOUGHT I WAS DEAD
August 2, 2003 | 4:00amEx-New Jersey Nets guard Chris Childs thought he was going to die when three thugs mugged him at gunpoint last fall. "Mr. Childs thought at that moment that he was...
HAIR-RAISING FIRE SMOKES OUT SALON
August 2, 2003 | 4:00amMore than a dozen ladies who lunch ended up on the street yesterday after a fire at the tony Bumble & Bumble hair salon in Manhattan sent patrons scurrying in...
SEX VICTIM BLASTS PASTOR FOR PRAYING 'HARDBALL'
August 2, 2003 | 4:00amPRIEST sex-abuse victim Philip Young remembers the "hardball" legal tactics employed by the Diocese of Camden under the helm of Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio. Under a bruising cross examination in Atlantic...
BUTCHER'S BAWLING BABIES DAUGHTERS WEEP FOR THEIR DEAR OLD DICTATOR
August 2, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Saddam Hussein's daughters yesterday blasted close aides for betraying their father and called him a "tender" man - even though he had ordered the executions of their husbands....
PHONE STRIKE LOOMING AT MIDNIGHT
August 2, 2003 | 4:00amSome 78,000 unionized Verizon workers are poised to strike at a minute past midnight tonight if they can't cut a last-minute deal with the nation's largest phone company. A strike...
MALIGNED BAR'S TV 'SEX' SUIT ENDS WITH A KISS
August 2, 2003 | 4:00am"Sex" fans don't have to worry about a nocturnal omission tomorrow. Producers of the HBO smash "Sex and the City" smoked the peace pipe yesterday with the owners of a...
SLAIN POL'S BROTHER A NO-SHOW AT TRIBUTE
August 2, 2003 | 4:00amCity Council candidate Geoffrey Davis was too busy running for office yesterday to turn up for a Brooklyn event honoring his slain brother that was hosted by Sen. Chuck Schumer....
NEW RICH $CANDAL; SUIT: DENISE 'HID' DONATION TO HILL
August 2, 2003 | 4:00amBill Clinton's socialite pal Denise Rich disguised a $2,000 donation to Hillary Rodham Clinton by coercing her record promoter to make the contribution and later reimbursing him, a new $30...
RING OF DECEIT; LOVE TOKEN ON WIFE'S BODY LEADS TO 'KILLER' BIZ BIG
August 2, 2003 | 4:00amThe former president of the Glen Cove Chamber of Commerce - charged yesterday with brutally murdering his wife of 23 years and dumping her naked body in Connecticut - was...
CEMETERY BURIES FRIGHT-FLICK PLAN
August 2, 2003 | 4:00amLike a mob of pitchfork-wielding villagers, relatives of the dead at Green-Wood cemetery have driven "Frankenstein" out of the historic Brooklyn graveyard. A day after The Post first reported that...
WHO-SEIN: SADDAM'S FIVE FACES
August 2, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The U.S. military wants troops to know that slippery Saddam Hussein may now look like a Bedouin, a weather-beaten cowboy - or even separated at birth from former...
HUNKY EX-COP IN HARASS SUIT
August 2, 2003 | 4:00amA muscle-bound former NYPD lieutenant says he was forced to resign from the department after his commanding officer sexually harassed him. Carlos Munroe, 46, who left the force in January...
HEROES SAVE 4 IN QNS. BLAZE
August 2, 2003 | 4:00amSeven heroic patrol cops rescued a pregnant woman, a 6-year-old boy and two other people from a burning Queens building yesterday. Officer Katrina Peacock spotted flames shooting from a two-story...
L.I. HOSP 'MOLESTER' NABBED
August 2, 2003 | 4:00amLong Island police arrested a hospital worker and charged him with sexually molesting a 62-year- old patient suffering from Parkinson's disease. Nassau County Police say that at 6 a.m. on...
EVEN J.LO FANS ROAST HER LATEST TURKEY
August 2, 2003 | 4:00amJ.Lo and hubby-to-be Ben aren't getting any props from the block. The Jennifer Lopez-Ben Affleck flick "Gigli" opened yesterday to a universal thumbs-down in New York - even from her...
STATE AND CITY IN $170M BATTLE OF THE BONDS
August 2, 2003 | 4:00amA battle between Mayor Bloomberg and Gov. Pataki is brewing after the governor's office said yesterday it will block the release of $170 million for the city. Pataki budget officials...
MAYHEM ON 27TH ST.; VENDOR SHOT, GARMENT WORKER PISTOL-WHIPPED
August 2, 2003 | 4:00amA Manhattan block erupted in violence yesterday during rush hour in two unrelated gun incidents that left one victim shot in the leg and another bruised and battered. A 34-year-old...
KOBE 911 STUNNER; EMTS WENT TO HIS HOME DAY BEFORE SURRENDER
August 2, 2003 | 4:00amParamedics responded to a 911 call at Kobe Bryant's Southern California home one day before the NBA superstar surrendered to Colorado police on charges he sexually assaulted a woman there....
NYPD BLUE $UIT: HUNKY EX-COP CHARGES SEX HARASSMENT
August 2, 2003 | 4:00amA muscle-bound former NYPD lieutenant on tap to star in a National Lampoon movie says he was forced to resign from the department after his commanding officer sexually harassed him....
ARNIE AIRING FLAIR FOR THE [[CD5;KA-1;HV17]]DRAMATIC
August 2, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Going showbiz all the way, Arnold Schwarzenegger plans to wait until Wednesday night to say if he's going to jump into the race to dump California Gov. Gray...
SLAIN COUNCILMAN'S BROTHER A NO-SHOW AT TRIBUTE
August 2, 2003 | 4:00amCity Council candidate Geoffrey Davis was too busy running for office yesterday to turn up for a Brooklyn event honoring his slain brother that was hosted by Sen. Chuck Schumer....
BUZZED BUSH OFF ON BREAK
August 2, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A chipper President Bush boasted that he's got "my summer buzz" - a slightly shorter haircut - as he tried to squeeze in a quickie round of golf...
JEB SLAPS PREZ IN REFUGEE FLAP
August 2, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Florida Gov. Jeb Bush criticized his brother's administration for sending a group of freedom-seeking Cubans back to the island after they hijacked a boat and tried to make...
GOV AND MAYOR IN $170M BATTLE OF THE BONDS
August 2, 2003 | 4:00amA battle between Mayor Bloomberg and Gov. Pataki is brewing after the governor's office said yesterday it will block the release of $170 million for the city. Pataki budget officials...
PUTRID 'PEN, ODIOUS 'O' DOOM METS
August 2, 2003 | 4:00amCards 8 Mets 2 What's a bigger problem: the Mets' ridiculously bad bullpen, or their laughably inept offense? Such questions are being pondered by the front office, and these distinctions...
NEW RICH $CANDAL : SUIT: DENISE 'HID' DONATION TO HILL
August 2, 2003 | 4:00amBill Clinton's socialite pal Denise Rich disguised a $2,000 donation to Hillary Rodham Clinton by coercing her record promoter to make the contribution and later reimbursing him, a new $30...
SORIANO IS DOWN, NOT OUT
August 2, 2003 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES OAKLAND - Hoping to restore life to Alfonso Soriano's dead bat, Joe Torre dropped his slumping second baseman from first to eighth last night against A's right-hander Tim...
CANCER STRIKES THIRD-ROUND PICK BATTLE
August 2, 2003 | 4:00amOAKLAND - Timothy Battle, the Yankees' third-round pick in the June draft, has been diagnosed with B-cell lymphoma, a form of bone cancer that the club has been told is...
'MEDAGLIA' HEADS FIELD FOR WHITNEY
August 2, 2003 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - It takes a standout to be odds-on in any stakes race, especially when the quality of opposition includes a Breeders' Cup Classic winner, a Jockey Club Gold...
MAIN 'POWER' THREAT IN STANDS
August 2, 2003 | 4:00amWhen John Campbell drives Power To Charm, the even money morning-line favorite, in today's $1 million Hambletonian, nine other drivers will be trying to upset his plans. But the driver...
NO OFFENSIVE BOONE ; NEW 3B WON'T CARRY YANKEES WITHOUT HELP FROM TEAMMATES
August 2, 2003 | 4:00am"Hopefully we become a better club. Hopefully he is a good player for us."JOE TORRE OAKLAND - Aaron Boone is a good player. And the Yankees are better at third...
'MANDO MAKES GOOD
August 2, 2003 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES OAKLAND - Joe Torre would like to get to the point at which it doesn't become back-page news every time he brings Armando Benitez into a game. The...
'MAKER,' 'FUNNY' RETURN
August 2, 2003 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Racing fans will have one eye on the racetrack, the other on the TV set tomorrow, both here and at Monmouth Park, as bitter rivals Empire Maker...
DL STILL POSSIBLE FOR GLAV
August 2, 2003 | 4:00amMET NOTES Don't expect Tom Glavine to start against the Cardinals tomorrow afternoon - and don't be surprised if he lands on the disabled list, either. "Unlikely is a better...
LIBERTY PROBLEMS ARE CRYSTAL-CLEAR
August 2, 2003 | 4:00amCrystal Robinson believes that the best way to shake a scoring slump is to keep shooting. Unfortunately, her sore shoulder has made that extra effort nearly impossible. "I don't really...
BIG BLUE: NO SIGN OF JOSEPH
August 2, 2003 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES ALBANY - The Giants figured the wait for William Joseph would be brief, but they've been proven wrong. All but three first-round draft picks have signed and Joseph...
GO EAST, YOUNG MEN : TOKYO GAME A SHOWCASE FOR JET ROOKS
August 2, 2003 | 4:00amTOKYO - As much as the NFL tried to market this unique American Bowl concept in Japan, today's Jets-Buccaneers preseason game at the Tokyo Dome was not about the Super...
JINT GAMBLE LOOKS GOOD
August 2, 2003 | 4:00amALBANY - The concern with Osi Umenyiora is that he can't play the run, yet the other day in practice he made four consecutive stops. "Four out of four, got...
GANG GREEN WELCOMES NAVY HEROES
August 2, 2003 | 4:00amJET NOTES TOKYO - The Jets had a group of special visitors to their final practice before today's American Bowl game against the Buccaneers at the Tokyo Dome. About 50...
NETS, K-MART GET OFF TO SLOW START
August 2, 2003 | 4:00amAll in all, it sounds as if the opening round of Kenyon Martin's contract extension negotiations could have gone better. "We have a difference of opinion," said Nets team president...
NO OFFENSIVE BOONE ; NEW 3B CAN'T CARRY YANKS
August 2, 2003 | 4:00am"I am sure I am going to be nervous. But part of being a big leaguer is [adjusting] to situations."AARON BOONE OAKLAND - Aaron Boone is a good player. And...
HERE I COME! PIAZZA POINTING TO AUG. 12 RETURN
August 2, 2003 | 4:00amThe Mets' Aug. 12 home contest against the Giants is listed as a Gold Level game for those buying tickets. Now that designation is certainly appropriate. That's because Aug. 12...
GLAV MIGHT STILL WIND UP ON DL
August 2, 2003 | 4:00amMET NOTES Don't expect Tom Glavine to start against the Cardinals tomorrow afternoon - and don't be surprised if he lands on the disabled list, either. "Unlikely is a better...
LIB SKID HITS FIVE
August 2, 2003 | 4:00amShock 62Liberty 60 Tari Phillips continues to say optimistic things. So do Tamika Whitmore and Teresa Weatherspoon. Soon, however, reality is bound to set in, but it wasn't apparent after...
TEJADA THUNDER ; MIGUEL HR SINKS BOMBERS IN 10TH
August 2, 2003 | 4:00am10 INNINGSA's 3Yanks 2 OAKLAND - The Yankees needed a bat swung by swollen biceps. The Yankees needed more bullpen help. The Yankees needed to do better in the trade...
SLUMP'S DOGGING SORIANO
August 2, 2003 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES OAKLAND - Hoping to restore life to Alfonso Soriano's dead bat, Joe Torre dropped his slumping second baseman from first to eighth last night against A's right-hander Tim...